Trunk.



Patented Nov. l4, I899. L. GOLDSMITH.

TRUNK.

(Application filed Aug. 28, 1899.)

(No Model.)

A WORN/5Y8 Joaz's THE NORRIS PETERS CO. PNDYGUTHUH WASNXNGTON, D C,

W/ TNE SSE 8 N v w UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS GOLDSMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TRUNK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 636,794, dated November 14, 1899.

. Application filed August 28,1899. Serial No. 728,666. (No model.)

To a ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS GOLDSMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Trunks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to trunks and the like, and particularly to a trunk designed to carry to a number of ladies skirts and other garments,

so that the same may be packed and transported without injury to the form of the garment by reason of unnecessary crushing of the folds thereof.

While the trunk is principally designed to carry ladies wearing-apparel, it is also useful to carry mens wearing-apparel.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of an open trunk of my improved construction. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a detail.

A is the bodyof a trunk. B is a suitable cover therefor, which may be hinged or otherwise attached thereto.

O G are guideways which may be undercut or otherwise suitably shaped to receive the slide-rods D, any number of which may be employed. Upon these slide-rods D may be carried hooks E E or other suitable supporting devices-suchas, for example, a screweye F. V

G is a hook which may support a coat or Waist supporting frame H.

I is a rack secured near the bottom of the trunk in any desired manner and supporting f orwardly-projecting spring-bars J J, arranged in sets of preferably two in each set. These spring-bars J J normally tend to bear against each other and may be supplemented by a fastening-loop K, if desired. The rack I and spring-bars J are preferably located near the end of the trunk opposite the slidebars and hangers D.

L represents a ladys skirt, and M a ladys waist.

Operation The trunkis opened and placed upon one end-for example, as shown in Fig. 1. One of the slide-bars D may be then removed and a skirt, as L, may be attached skirts. If it is desired to pack a Waist, such as H, the same may be placed over the sup porting-frame H in the mannershown in Fig. 2. The slide-bar D may then be reinserted into place in the trunk, as shown, while the bottom of the skirt may be inserted between the spring-bars J J, which may be brought together and fastened. Any suitable number of skirts and waists may be thus packed compactly and neatly without unnecessarily wrinkling or otherwise injuring the hang of the garment.

Obviously the bars J J need not be spring= bars, since the same end would be efiected if they were simply brought together and fastened by such a means as a loop K after the garment has been put in place.

If desired, another rack, as I, may be provided midway in the length of the trunk, so

as to provide a supplemental clasp for the garments at an intermediate point in the length, and such an addition is too obvious to require a detailed illustration.

The trunk should properly be constructed of a length slightly greater than the ordinary or average skirt, so that folding will be unnecessary. This is not, however, a requirement, since I have found that in practice the garment will not become wrinkled if it is porting a garment carried by each of said slidebars, a plurality of independent sets of nonremovable clamping-bars in said trunk to ward the opposite end thereof and means to press the clamping-bars of each independent set into engagement with a garment embraced thereby.

2. In a trunk a plurality of independent slide-bars at one end thereof, means for supporting a garment carried by each of said slidebars, a plurality of independent sets of non- Ioo removable spring clamping-bars in said trunk toward the opposite end thereof, each of said bars being mounted near its extremity, and means to press the clamping-bars of each in dependent set into engagement with a garment embraced thereby.

3. In a trunk a plurality of independent I slide-bars at one end thereof, means for supl porting a garment carried by each of said slidebars, a plurality of independent sets of nonremovable clamping-bars in said trunk toward the opposite end thereof, each of said bars being mounted nearits extremity and a loop to hold the clamping-bars of each independent set into engagement with a garment I5 embraced thereby.

Signed at New York, N. Y., this 25th day of August, 1809.

L. GOLDSMITH. Witnesses:

R. O. MrroHELL, GEORGE T. HACKLEY. 

